The Random House Webster's College Dictionary, determined to drive offensiveness from English, has labelled words with the degree of their offensiveness, thus chiefly enabling insult contests in college dormatories, as to who can produce the most offensive epithet on points.

When someone down the line writes the history of this age, it will be understood that our grand passion was the offense. In the last decade we have indulged in an orgy of litigious offense-taking. It is remarkable that so few of our sages have written about this supreme emotion, the right and privilege of the young, the old, the impaired, women, those of minority sexual preference, and persons of color.